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* Earth and ([[Arc Fatigue|eventually]]) Namek in ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. Earth was reset with the Dragon Balls, and part of Namek's population was resurrected and given a new home. Arlia was less lucky.

** Earth actually gets it twice, first from Super Buu, then again in ''GT'' thanks to the effects of the Black Star Dragon Balls. The Namekian Dragon Balls restored it both times.

 

 

* Too many [[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] and [[The DCU|DC]] Comics plotlines to count.

* Narrowly averted in a ''[[Donald Duck]]'' story about [[Hollywood Acid|the Universal Solvent]], which dissolves everything except diamonds and does not dissipate. When it's poured to the ground, it's going to [[Minovsky Physics|keep dissolving]] the planet from within unless the heroes recapture it with a diamond-linen container.

 

 

* The [[H.P. Lovecraft|Cthulhu Mythos]] has Dholes, enormous worms that destroy planets by burrowing through them until they collapse. In the [[Tabletop RPG]] based on the books, an investigator unfortunate enough to be attacked directly by a Dhole will get a single roll -- to determine if there's enough bits left for a funeral.

* The [[Lensman]] books end up using planets as billiard balls against other planets as well as planet-sized masses of antimatter.

 

 

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has a number.

** The home planet of the classic series Cybermen, Mondas.

 

 

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'s'' aptly-named Planet Killer and Blackstone Fortresses.

** The Blackstone Fortresses scale up the more combing their beams. One is a Class X, disintegrating the planet (compared to the Planet Killer, which leaves enormous quantities of debris), but three or more could qualify as a X-2, since it is capable of destroying a star, wiping out the entire system with it. Technically, Blackstone Fortresses don't destroy planets outright. They open a split-second rift into the in-universe equivalent of hell that overlaps their target.

 

 

* Planet annihilation is possible in ''[[Star Ruler]]''. Simply park a big enough ship nearby, and order it to attack, and the ship will bomb the planet to the point where the planet will break up.

* In [[Kingdom Hearts]], [[The Heartless]] will do this to a world if they rampage across it unchecked.

 

 

* Turned on its head with the Planet Eater of ''[[Casey and Andy]]''. He's designed to eat the planet Earth but, being about the size of a hamster, can only do it one bite at a time.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': [[Big Bad|Jack Noir]] does this to Prospit in the kids' session, {{spoiler|and later on ([[Timey-Wimey Ball|sorta]]) he destroys Prospit and Derse in the Trolls' session}}. He does this with a [[MacGuffin|magic ring.]]

 

 

* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' blows up Earth's moon in this way, which does not do good things for Earth.

* in the [[Whateley Universe]] there was a sundering, which effectively destroyed the elves, their home, and their civilization. their souls survived to arrive on earth in a few instances, and their servants, the weres, were sent to earth before the end, so this may be a subversion of it.

 

 

* ''[[Titan A.E.]]'': Though a handful of humans evacuate.

* [[Looney Tunes|Marvin the Martian]] ''tried'' to accomplish this, but was repeatedly thwarted by a [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|dangerous Earth creature]]. In "[[Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century]]", Planet X, the planet of the shaving cream atom, is blown to pieces by Duck Dodgers and the Martian one-upping one another.

 

 

* The (in)famous and controversial ''[[Grey Goo]]'' scenario. Poorly programmed nanomachines go all von Neumann on all matter with which they come in contact, turning it into more poorly programmed nanomachines that do the same thing until every bit of matter within reach has been turned into poorly programmed nanomachines.

* Some scenarios for the origin of the Earth-Moon planetary pairing suggest that a somewhat larger "Earth 1" was hit by another, Mars-sized planetary body. This impact tore off a huge section of its surface, leaving behind our present "Earth 2". The dislodged debris settled into orbit as a ring, then gradually congealed into the Moon over millions of years.